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Tag Archives: engineering
Major Corporations Embrace Crowdfunding
Major corporations now embrace crowdfunding as a way to test market appeal for new products. Sony, the Japanese consumer product giant, is on Indiegogo crowdfunding its new education toy called Koov. Koov is a robot building kit (a la Lego) … Continue reading
Posted in checkbook, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, technology, Wall Street
Tagged app, coding, critical thinking, crowdfund, crowdfunding, design, education, education market, engineering, games, hardware, internet, kids, Koov, mathematics, robot, Robotics, science, Sony, STEM, technology
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Magazine Sours On Crowdfunding
The PopSlate 2 phone case million dollar crowdfunded startup is the latest big bust for Indiegogo as the crowdfunder has notified backers that it is filing bankruptcy. There will be no delivery of promised product and no backer refunds of … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, balance, Broker dealers, checkbook, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, discrepancies, fraud, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, review, SEC, technology, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged backer, bankruptcy, capital, crowdfund, crowdfunding, customer, delivery, donor, due diligence, engineering, equity, failure, IndieGoGo, internet, iPhone, kickstarter, PopSlate, pre-sales, promises, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, success, update
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Avoid Crowdfunding Disasters
Tips on how to avoid a crowdfunding disaster include: have a cynic on the management team who can anticipate how things will go wrong; double your budget for the cost of building your product (remember Murphy’s Law); triple the estimate … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, discrepancies, Film, fraud, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, technology, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged accredited investor, anticipate, capital, creation, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfund, crowdfunding, delivery, engineering, equity, fraud, fulfillment, IndieGoGo, JOBS Act, kickstarter, made in China, manufacture, marketing, orders, Pebble Watch, planning, pre-sales, product design, product development, promises, Razor, Regulation D, rewards, SEC, timing, venture capital, Zano
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Scientists Turn To Crowdfunding
Because the National Institutes of Health grant rate is at about 22% and other grants are dying up, scientists are turning more and more to crowdfunding. While some have called it “panda science,” the number of scientific projects on crowdfunding … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, FINRA, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Venture Capital
Tagged applications, clinical trials, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, DNA, donors, drones, drugs, engineering, experiment, experiment.com, grants, IndieGoGo, JOBS Act, kickstarter, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, NIH, peer-review, PLoS One, professor, project, research, rewards, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, success rate, test, The Colbert Report, university
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Crowdfunding’s Fine Line: Feasibility or Fraud?
The Wall Street Journal believes that Indiegogo’s InDemand feature, which lets crowdfunders take pre-orders after their crowdfunding deadline has passed, is dangerously merging crowdfunding with e-commerce. The fear is that if the offering is technologically difficult (or impossible) the company … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Venture Capital
Tagged commission, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, deadline, delivery, donation, donor, e-commerce, engineering, FINRA, Forever Funding, fraud, InDemand, IndieGoGo, JOBS Act, Kickstarter CEO Yancey Stickler, pre-orders, processing fee, project, rewards, Ritot, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Slava Rubin
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Robot Invasion!
Just to illustrate how crowd funding might change our future, take a look at Roboy, a crowd funded, anatomically correct, humanoid robot. An EU project that is being led by Prof. Owen Holland of Sussex University, it is intended to … Continue reading
Posted in Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Funding Portals, Investments, Small Business, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged artificial intelligence, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, engineering, EU, European Union, funding, interaction, JOBS Act, open source, research, robots, Roboy, science, supporter, Swiss
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